As part of the Health Impacts of Climate Change challenge, NASA officials presented on behalf of this year’s first (Local Air Quality Notification) and third (Measuring Local Changes) prizewinners their project to the White House’s Office of Science and Technology policy team.

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Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) invites faculty and students to take classes at our multimedia center! BAVC inspires social change by empowering media makers to develop and share diverse stories through art, education and technology.

We are thrilled to be hosting our third annual "National Day of Civic Hacking" at SF State. As an additional event this year, we are also hosting a "Workshop on Civic Technologies and Smart Cities". This is something new for us! We hope to build the momentum and sustain it through our students and curricula.

Join us to to collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology to solve challenges relevant to our neighborhoods, our cities, our states and our country.

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I was introduced to Free Software in 1996. It's been an interesting ride since then. We've seen several phases of re-oranizing, redefining, and leveraging the core concepts of Free Software and Open Source Software (yes, those are two different things. Similar, but different). Code is written to solve a specific problem, and then it gets used to solve a very different problem. That's the beauty of the remix that comes from FOSS. Humanitarian FOSS is an interesting nexus.